Comment on Can anyone tell me what format this uh.. nested dictionary is?
Knusper@feddit.de 11 months ago
It looks similar in structure to JSON:
{ "attr": { "size": "62091", "filename": "qBuUP9-OTfuzibt6PQX4-g.jpg", ... }; "key": "Wa4AJWFldqRZjBozponbSLRZ", ... }
So, it might be some JSON meta language. I just find it weird that it seems to contain all data, so you wouldn’t use this for validating or templating JSON.
But ultimately, it also means with a handful of regex replacements, you could turn this particular file into JSON. Might make building your own parser almost trivial…
luthis@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
Yeah, its real close to JSON but not.
I’m going to have to go a step deeper and find out what’s going on in the code because this section is repeated many many times. It’s not just this one that I need to parse.
… It might even be easier to write my own parser like you said, because I need to take actions based on the date fields.